...why he built a cabin in the woods surrounding Walden Pond and lived there two years and two months: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,...

...My goal was to gain a deeper understanding of God's hope for me— never to be disillusioned again. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when...

...shrink from this duty and follow instead the dictates of family, society, or religion. Thoreau writes, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, so that when I came to die I would not discover that I had...

...den Wäldern verfolgt die Frage, was für den gelungenen Vollzug des eigenen Lebens notwendig ist: „I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,...

...Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 ~ Less is more. ~ Robert Browning, 1812-1889 ~ "Andrea del Sarto," 1855 I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,...

...experienced. His experiment revealed deep currents and a possible direction for the emerging American culture. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,...

...contentment he found living out a spartan existence in the north. Henry David Thoreau had it right: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not bring what it had to teach and when I...

...reaches its crescendo in a famous passage singing the praises of selfdevelopment and self-knowledge: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life" (90). It begins, however, piano: "At a certain season of our...

...exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. Kahili Gibran 1883-1931 Anthem of Humanity 23. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,...

...Abbruch dem Ich ebenso neue Kräfte zuwachsen wie durch den Impuls des Bauens selbst. Die Textstellen „I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,...